[Public-list] lazy jacks

[Gordon Laco]

Oh here I go again...

I don't see any use for lazy jacks.  If you use your first reef to hold the
after end of the sail, and hold the first reef tack in your hand, you will
have a trough that the sail will fall into as it comes down.  If folds of it
fall out, you make a tossing motion with the hand holding the tack and the
sail with fall back in.

Easy as pie even with one person.

Cheers - Gord #426







> Does anybody reading this list use lazy jacks? Any discussion for or
> against?
> 
> The only real downside I can see is windage. I think I have a pretty good
> plan for installing a system which will be deployed only when lowering the
> sail, so it should not cause chafe on the sail, get snagged during gybes or
> raising the sail, require modification to the cover, or present excessive
> windage (it will normally store next to the mast on reef hooks at the
> gooseneck while sailing).
> 
> Lowering the sail and keeping it captive on the boom for flaking is a pretty
> big problem for me while sailing shorthanded and it appears that using lazy
> jacks would be a relatively inexpensive and simple way to alleviate the
> difficulty of doing this with only 2 people on board.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> J Bergquist
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